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  <front>
    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v2">S0066-782X2019000700001</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20190135</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Editorial</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Just-Released JCR Impact Factor Shows Strong and Steady Increase for ABC Cardiol - 1.679 - A New Historical Record</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-4505-3344</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Rochitte</surname>
            <given-names>Carlos E.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">*</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="aff1">
          <label>1</label>
          <institution content-type="orgname">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o</institution>
          <addr-line>
            <city>S&#227;o Paulo</city>
            <state>SP</state>
          </addr-line>
          <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o - Incor, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brazil</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Mailing Address: Carlos E. Rochitte &#8226;</bold> Av. Dr. En&#233;as de Carvalho Aguiar 44 - Andar AB - Resson&#226;ncia &amp; Tomografia - Cerqueira C&#233;sar - 05403-000 - S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brazil E-mail: <email>rochitte@cardiol.br</email>, <email>rochitte@incor.usp.br</email>
				</corresp>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by" id="fn1">
          <label>*</label>
          <p>Editor-Chefe da ABC Cardiol - Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>113</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>01</fpage>
      <lpage>04</lpage>
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      </permissions>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <title>Keywords:</title>
        <kwd>Bibliometrics</kwd>
        <kwd>Journal Impact Factor</kwd>
        <kwd>Periosicals as Topic</kwd>
        <kwd>Scimago</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
    </article-meta>
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    <p>Dear friends from the Cardiology and Cardiovascular scientific community in Brazil and abroad, please allow me this short editorial with extraordinary news on the ABC Cardiol Journal, accompanied by data, of course.</p>
    <p>We are delighted to announce that our peer-reviewed journal of The Brazilian Society of Cardiology, the ABC Cardiol (Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia), has seen significant increase in its impact factor rating in the latest Journal of Citation Reports (JCR) release. Our impact factor went up from 1.318, released last year (2017 rate) to 1.679 this year (2018 rate), a 27% increase in one year and the highest impact factor ever for ABC Cardiol.</p>
    <p>We can see a clear and steep increase of the impact factor in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">Figure 1</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> breaking the barrier of 1,5 impact factor. Articles published in the ABC Cardiol received a staggering 3000 citations in 2018 alone (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">Figure 2</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> Another barrier that was broken by ABC Cardiol this year is the third Quartile. We are now ranked at the Q3 of all 136 Cardiac and Cardiovascular System journals in the World (<xref ref-type="table" rid="t1">Table 1</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> ABC Cardiol galvanized his position of the highest ranked Journal in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science in Latin America, position that was reached and maintained since 2014 (see <xref ref-type="table" rid="t2">Table 2</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>
		</p>
    <p>
      <fig id="f1">
        <label>Figure 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>ABC Cardiol JCR Impact Factor from 2009 to 2018.</title>
        </caption>
        <attrib>Source: JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
				</attrib>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-113-01-0001-90135-gf01.jpg"/></fig>
    </p>
    <p>
      <fig id="f2">
        <label>Figure 2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>ABC Cardiol Total Citations per Year</title>
        </caption>
        <attrib>Source: JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
				</attrib>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-113-01-0001-90135-gf02.jpg"/></fig>
    </p>
    <table-wrap id="t1">
      <label>Table 1</label>
      <caption>
        <title>ABC Cardiol Quartiles Rank from 2009 to 2018. Source JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
				</title>
      </caption>
      <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
        <colgroup>
          <col width="25%"/>
          <col width="25%"/>
          <col width="25%"/>
          <col width="25%"/>
        </colgroup>
        <thead>
          <tr>
            <th align="left" rowspan="2">JCR year</th>
            <th align="center" colspan="3" style="border-bottom-width:thin;border-bottom-style:solid">Cardiac and Cardiovascualr systems</th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th align="center">Rank</th>
            <th align="center">Quartile</th>
            <th align="center">JIF Percentile</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2018</td>
            <td align="center">98/136</td>
            <td align="center">Q3</td>
            <td align="center">23.309</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2017</td>
            <td align="center">106/128</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">17.578</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2016</td>
            <td align="center">107/126</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">15.476</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2015</td>
            <td align="center">97/124</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">22.177</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2014</td>
            <td align="center">100/123</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">19.106</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2013</td>
            <td align="center">96/125</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">23.600</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2012</td>
            <td align="center">91/124</td>
            <td align="center">Q3</td>
            <td align="center">27.016</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2011</td>
            <td align="center">98/117</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">16.667</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2010</td>
            <td align="center">87/114</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">24.123</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2009</td>
            <td align="center">63/95</td>
            <td align="center">Q3</td>
            <td align="center">34.211</td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <table-wrap id="t2">
      <label>Table 2</label>
      <caption>
        <title>Rank in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science Journals in Latin America. Source SCIMAGO<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>
				</title>
      </caption>
      <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
        <colgroup>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="40%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
          <col width="5%"/>
        </colgroup>
        <thead>
          <tr>
            <th align="left">Rank</th>
            <th>Title</th>
            <th align="center">SJR</th>
            <th align="center">SJR Quartile</th>
            <th align="center">H index</th>
            <th align="center">Total Docs. (2018)</th>
            <th align="center">Total Docs. (3years)</th>
            <th align="center">Total Refs.</th>
            <th align="center">Total Cites (3years)</th>
            <th align="center">Citable Docs. (3years)</th>
            <th align="center">Cites / Doc. (2years)</th>
            <th align="center">Ref./Doc.</th>
            <th align="center">Country</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">1</td>
            <td>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</td>
            <td align="center">0,407</td>
            <td align="center">Q3</td>
            <td align="center">45</td>
            <td align="center">250</td>
            <td align="center">595</td>
            <td align="center">5472</td>
            <td align="center">592</td>
            <td align="center">418</td>
            <td align="center">1,41</td>
            <td align="center">21,89</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">2</td>
            <td>Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery</td>
            <td align="center">0,324</td>
            <td align="center">Q3</td>
            <td align="center">22</td>
            <td align="center">109</td>
            <td align="center">290</td>
            <td align="center">2058</td>
            <td align="center">234</td>
            <td align="center">237</td>
            <td align="center">0,83</td>
            <td align="center">18,88</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">3</td>
            <td>Jornal Vascular Brasileiro</td>
            <td align="center">0,158</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">13</td>
            <td align="center">61</td>
            <td align="center">178</td>
            <td align="center">1146</td>
            <td align="center">71</td>
            <td align="center">162</td>
            <td align="center">0,42</td>
            <td align="center">18,79</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">4</td>
            <td>Archivos de Cardiologia de Mexico</td>
            <td align="center">0,142</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">16</td>
            <td align="center">94</td>
            <td align="center">195</td>
            <td align="center">2043</td>
            <td align="center">46</td>
            <td align="center">174</td>
            <td align="center">0,26</td>
            <td align="center">21,73</td>
            <td align="center">Mexico</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">5</td>
            <td>Revista Argentina de Cardiologia</td>
            <td align="center">0,127</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">9</td>
            <td align="center">109</td>
            <td align="center">368</td>
            <td align="center">1375</td>
            <td align="center">18</td>
            <td align="center">159</td>
            <td align="center">0,1</td>
            <td align="center">12,61</td>
            <td align="center">Argentina</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">6</td>
            <td>Revista Latinoamericana de Hipertension</td>
            <td align="center">0,124</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">5</td>
            <td align="center">95</td>
            <td align="center">53</td>
            <td align="center">3091</td>
            <td align="center">25</td>
            <td align="center">53</td>
            <td align="center">0,55</td>
            <td align="center">32,54</td>
            <td align="center">Venezuela</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">7</td>
            <td>Revista Colombiana de Cardiologia</td>
            <td align="center">0,117</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">8</td>
            <td align="center">135</td>
            <td align="center">411</td>
            <td align="center">3196</td>
            <td align="center">54</td>
            <td align="center">386</td>
            <td align="center">0,12</td>
            <td align="center">23,67</td>
            <td align="center">Colombia</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">8</td>
            <td>Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva</td>
            <td align="center">0,113</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">7</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">100</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">5</td>
            <td align="center">81</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">9</td>
            <td>Revista de la Federacion Argentina de Cardiologia</td>
            <td align="center">0,112</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">4</td>
            <td align="center">30</td>
            <td align="center">158</td>
            <td align="center">449</td>
            <td align="center">9</td>
            <td align="center">124</td>
            <td align="center">0,04</td>
            <td align="center">14,97</td>
            <td align="center">Argentina</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">10</td>
            <td>Revista Mexicana de Angiologia</td>
            <td align="center">0,112</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">3</td>
            <td align="center">23</td>
            <td align="center">74</td>
            <td align="center">288</td>
            <td align="center">3</td>
            <td align="center">62</td>
            <td align="center">0,05</td>
            <td align="center">12,52</td>
            <td align="center">Mexico</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">11</td>
            <td>Insuficiencia Cardiaca</td>
            <td align="center">0,109</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">5</td>
            <td align="center">21</td>
            <td align="center">77</td>
            <td align="center">592</td>
            <td align="center">3</td>
            <td align="center">67</td>
            <td align="center">0,02</td>
            <td align="center">28,19</td>
            <td align="center">Argentina</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">12</td>
            <td>Revista Mexicana de Cardiologia</td>
            <td align="center">0,104</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">4</td>
            <td align="center">22</td>
            <td align="center">94</td>
            <td align="center">638</td>
            <td align="center">10</td>
            <td align="center">86</td>
            <td align="center">0,09</td>
            <td align="center">29</td>
            <td align="center">Mexico</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">13</td>
            <td>Revista Mexicana de Enfermeria Cardiologica</td>
            <td align="center">0,101</td>
            <td align="center">Q4</td>
            <td align="center">2</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">29</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">24</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">Mexico</td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>One important aspect of the progression of our JCR impact factor is depicted in the <xref ref-type="table" rid="t3">Table 3</xref>.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> While in the same period of 2017 to 2018, most of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science and Medical Journals in Brazil only maintained or even decreased their impact factor, ABC Cardiol steadily increased in a significantly amount its impact factor, only followed by a basic research journal. So, in our scientific community in Latin America ABC Cardiol has established itself as the main reference journal for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science.</p>
    <table-wrap id="t3">
      <label>Table 3</label>
      <caption>
        <title>JCR impact factor for 2017 and 2018 for Brazilian Journals (Cardiovascular Field, Medicine and Basic Research). Source JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
				</title>
      </caption>
      <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
        <colgroup>
          <col width="60%"/>
          <col width="20%"/>
          <col width="20%"/>
        </colgroup>
        <thead>
          <tr>
            <th align="left">Journal</th>
            <th align="center">Impact Factor 2017</th>
            <th align="center">Impact Factor 2018</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</td>
            <td align="center">1,318</td>
            <td align="center">1,679</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery</td>
            <td align="center">0,805</td>
            <td align="center">0,796</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research</td>
            <td align="center">1,492</td>
            <td align="center">1,850</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Clinics</td>
            <td align="center">1,245</td>
            <td align="center">1,127</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz</td>
            <td align="center">2,833</td>
            <td align="center">2,368</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira</td>
            <td align="center">0,736</td>
            <td align="center">0,801</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="left">Sao Paulo Medical Journal</td>
            <td align="center">1,063</td>
            <td align="center">1,088</td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>The rise in impact factor means that our research community is recognizing the articles being accepted and published in ABC Cardiol journal as relevant and impactful science. This accomplishment fulfills ABC Cardiol mission that is to promote new knowledge and publish the latest research, emerging technologies and breakthrough advances in Cardiology and cardiac diseases.</p>
    <p>ABC Cardiol journal is free and open access journal that can be viewed, downloaded and accessed by mobile app from anywhere in the World. The readers can interact with editorial board members and authors through social media (Facebook, Tweeter, Instagram, etc) and through movie posts in our newly re-designed web-portal.</p>
    <p>This important step on the ABC Cardiol progression toward a higher scientific rank was only possible by a continuous editorial policy that started several years back with Dr. Luis Felipe Moreira, former Editor-in-Chief, to whom we are deeply grateful. Our international and talented associate editors&#8217; team, dedicated editorial board and reviewers are by far the main reason that led ABC Cardiol to his current position. The strong support from our Brazilian Society of Cardiology board of directors to the ABC Cardiol has been crucial to achieve our goals of increasing our impact and presence in the scientific community. Our dedicated team of editorial assistants that does not measure the efforts to achieve timely and high quality publication is of paramount importance to our ABC Cardiol journal operation. For me as editor-in-chief, running ABC Cardiol and working together with this great team of professionals in our office in S&#227;o Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro has been a blessing. Thank you so much for this delightful experience.</p>
    <p>Our editorial policy is focused in the scientific quality of submitted manuscripts and the novelty they bring to the field. We welcome new and revolutionary ideas brought to light by rigorous scientific method in well-written manuscripts. Our main language is English, but we accept and publish all articles bilingually, English and Portuguese.</p>
    <p>We have editorial comments for all published original articles, which place the new science in context with the specific research field. ABC Cardiol is also the home of all clinical guidelines, statements and expert consensus endorsed by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. All guidelines are now published in Portuguese and English and within the body of the Journal. With these recent improvements in our editorial policy and continuous support from our scientific community and post-graduation programs in Brazil we hope we can break another impact factor barrier next year. Thank you all very much.</p>
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    <front-stub>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Editorial</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Fator de Impacto JCR Rec&#233;m-divulgado Mostra Aumento Forte e Est&#225;vel para a ABC - Cardiol - 1.679 - Um Novo Registro Hist&#243;rico</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-4505-3344</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Rochitte</surname>
            <given-names>Carlos E.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn2">*</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c2"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="aff2">
          <label>1</label>
          <institution content-type="original">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o - Incor, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Carlos E. Rochitte &#8226;</bold> Av. Dr. En&#233;as de Carvalho Aguiar 44 - Andar AB - Resson&#226;ncia &amp; Tomografia - Cerqueira C&#233;sar - 05403-000 - S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil E-mail: <email>rochitte@cardiol.br</email>, <email>rochitte@incor.usp.br</email>
				</corresp>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by" id="fn2">
          <label>*</label>
          <p>Editor-Chefe da ABC Cardiol - Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</p>
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        <title>Palavras-chave:</title>
        <kwd>Bibliometria</kwd>
        <kwd>Fator de Impacto de Revistas</kwd>
        <kwd>Revistas como Assunto</kwd>
        <kwd>Scimago</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
    </front-stub>
    <body>
      <p>Caros amigos da comunidade cient&#237;fica Cardiovascular e de Cardiologia no Brasil e no exterior, permitam-me este breve editorial com not&#237;cias extraordin&#225;rias no Jornal ABC Cardiol, acompanhado de dados, &#233; claro.</p>
      <p>Temos o prazer de anunciar que a nossa revista revisada por pares da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia, os Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC Cardiol), viu um aumento significativo na classifica&#231;&#227;o do seu fator de impacto na &#250;ltima vers&#227;o do <italic>Journal of Citation Reports</italic> (JCR). Nosso fator de impacto subiu de 1,318, divulgado no ano passado (taxa de 2017) para 1,679 este ano (taxa de 2018), um aumento de 27% em um ano e o maior fator de impacto para a ABC Cardiol at&#233; hoje.</p>
      <p>Podemos observar um aumento claro e acentuado do fator de impacto na <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">Figura 1</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> quebrando a barreira do fator de impacto 1,5. Artigos publicados na ABC Cardiol receberam surpreendentes 3000 cita&#231;&#245;es apenas em 2018 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">Figura 2</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> Outra barreira que foi quebrada pela ABC Cardiol este ano &#233; o terceiro quartil. Estamos agora classificados no Q3 de todas as 136 revistas do Sistema Card&#237;aco e Cardiovascular no Mundo (<xref ref-type="table" rid="t4">Tabela 1</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> A ABC Cardiol estabeleceu sua posi&#231;&#227;o na mais alta classifica&#231;&#227;o de revistas de Cardiologia e Ci&#234;ncias Cardiovasculares da Am&#233;rica Latina, posi&#231;&#227;o alcan&#231;ada e mantida desde 2014 (ver <xref ref-type="table" rid="t5">Tabela 2</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>
			</p>
      <p>
        <fig id="f3">
          <label>Figura 1</label>
          <caption>
            <title>Fator de Impacto JCR da Revista ABC Cardiol de 2009 a 2018.</title>
          </caption>
          <attrib>Fonte: JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
					</attrib>
          <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-113-01-0001-90135-gf01-pt.jpg"/></fig>
      </p>
      <p>
        <fig id="f4">
          <label>Figura 2</label>
          <caption>
            <title>Total de Cita&#231;&#245;es por Ano da ABC Cardiol.</title>
          </caption>
          <attrib>Fonte: JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
					</attrib>
          <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-113-01-0001-90135-gf02-pt.jpg"/></fig>
      </p>
      <table-wrap id="t4">
        <label>Tabela 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Classifica&#231;&#227;o de Quartis da ABC Cardiol de 2009 a 2018. Fonte: JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
					</title>
        </caption>
        <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
          <colgroup>
            <col width="25%"/>
            <col width="25%"/>
            <col width="25%"/>
            <col width="25%"/>
          </colgroup>
          <thead>
            <tr>
              <th align="left" rowspan="2">JCR Ano</th>
              <th align="center" colspan="3" style="border-bottom-width:thin;border-bottom-style:solid">Sistemas Card&#237;aco e Cardiovascular</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <th align="center">Classifica&#231;&#227;o</th>
              <th align="center">Quartil</th>
              <th align="center">Percentil JIF</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2018</td>
              <td align="center">98/136</td>
              <td align="center">Q3</td>
              <td align="center">23,309</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2017</td>
              <td align="center">106/128</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">17,578</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2016</td>
              <td align="center">107/126</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">15,476</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2015</td>
              <td align="center">97/124</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">22,177</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2014</td>
              <td align="center">100/123</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">19,106</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2013</td>
              <td align="center">96/125</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">23,600</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2012</td>
              <td align="center">91/124</td>
              <td align="center">Q3</td>
              <td align="center">27,016</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2011</td>
              <td align="center">98/117</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">16,667</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2010</td>
              <td align="center">87/114</td>
              <td align="center">Q4</td>
              <td align="center">24,123</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2009</td>
              <td align="center">63/95</td>
              <td align="center">Q3</td>
              <td align="center">34,211</td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
      </table-wrap>
      <table-wrap id="t5">
        <label>Tabela 2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Classifica&#231;&#227;o em Revistas de Cardiologia e Ci&#234;ncias Cardiovasculares na Am&#233;rica Latina. Fonte: SCIMAGO<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>
					</title>
        </caption>
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          <colgroup>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="40%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
            <col width="5%"/>
          </colgroup>
          <thead>
            <tr>
              <th align="left">Classifica&#231;&#227;o</th>
              <th align="left">T&#237;tulo</th>
              <th align="left">SJR</th>
              <th align="left">Quartil SJR</th>
              <th align="left">&#205;ndice H</th>
              <th align="left">Total Docs. (2018)</th>
              <th align="left">Total Docs. (3 anos)</th>
              <th align="left">Total Refs.</th>
              <th align="left">Total de Cita&#231;&#245;es (3 anos)</th>
              <th align="left">Docs. Cit&#225;veis (3 anos)</th>
              <th align="left">Cita&#231;&#245;es / Doc. (2 anos)</th>
              <th align="left">Ref./Doc.</th>
              <th align="left">Pa&#237;s</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">1</td>
              <td align="left">Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</td>
              <td align="left">0,407</td>
              <td align="left">Q3</td>
              <td align="left">45</td>
              <td align="left">250</td>
              <td align="left">595</td>
              <td align="left">5472</td>
              <td align="left">592</td>
              <td align="left">418</td>
              <td align="left">1,41</td>
              <td align="left">21,89</td>
              <td align="left">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2</td>
              <td align="left">Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery</td>
              <td align="left">0,324</td>
              <td align="left">Q3</td>
              <td align="left">22</td>
              <td align="left">109</td>
              <td align="left">290</td>
              <td align="left">2058</td>
              <td align="left">234</td>
              <td align="left">237</td>
              <td align="left">0,83</td>
              <td align="left">18,88</td>
              <td align="left">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">3</td>
              <td align="left">Jornal Vascular Brasileiro</td>
              <td align="left">0,158</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">13</td>
              <td align="left">61</td>
              <td align="left">178</td>
              <td align="left">1146</td>
              <td align="left">71</td>
              <td align="left">162</td>
              <td align="left">0,42</td>
              <td align="left">18,79</td>
              <td align="left">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">4</td>
              <td align="left">Archivos de Cardiologia de Mexico</td>
              <td align="left">0,142</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">16</td>
              <td align="left">94</td>
              <td align="left">195</td>
              <td align="left">2043</td>
              <td align="left">46</td>
              <td align="left">174</td>
              <td align="left">0,26</td>
              <td align="left">21,73</td>
              <td align="left">M&#233;xico</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">5</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Argentina de Cardiologia</td>
              <td align="left">0,127</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">9</td>
              <td align="left">109</td>
              <td align="left">368</td>
              <td align="left">1375</td>
              <td align="left">18</td>
              <td align="left">159</td>
              <td align="left">0,1</td>
              <td align="left">12,61</td>
              <td align="left">Argentina</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">6</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Latinoamericana de Hipertension</td>
              <td align="left">0,124</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">5</td>
              <td align="left">95</td>
              <td align="left">53</td>
              <td align="left">3091</td>
              <td align="left">25</td>
              <td align="left">53</td>
              <td align="left">0,55</td>
              <td align="left">32,54</td>
              <td align="left">Venezuela</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">7</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Colombiana de Cardiologia</td>
              <td align="left">0,117</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">8</td>
              <td align="left">135</td>
              <td align="left">411</td>
              <td align="left">3196</td>
              <td align="left">54</td>
              <td align="left">386</td>
              <td align="left">0,12</td>
              <td align="left">23,67</td>
              <td align="left">Col&#244;mbia</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">8</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva</td>
              <td align="left">0,113</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">7</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">100</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">5</td>
              <td align="left">81</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">9</td>
              <td align="left">Revista de la Federacion Argentina de Cardiologia</td>
              <td align="left">0,112</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">4</td>
              <td align="left">30</td>
              <td align="left">158</td>
              <td align="left">449</td>
              <td align="left">9</td>
              <td align="left">124</td>
              <td align="left">0,04</td>
              <td align="left">14,97</td>
              <td align="left">Argentina</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">10</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Mexicana de Angiologia</td>
              <td align="left">0,112</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">3</td>
              <td align="left">23</td>
              <td align="left">74</td>
              <td align="left">288</td>
              <td align="left">3</td>
              <td align="left">62</td>
              <td align="left">0,05</td>
              <td align="left">12,52</td>
              <td align="left">M&#233;xico</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">11</td>
              <td align="left">Insuficiencia Cardiaca</td>
              <td align="left">0,109</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">5</td>
              <td align="left">21</td>
              <td align="left">77</td>
              <td align="left">592</td>
              <td align="left">3</td>
              <td align="left">67</td>
              <td align="left">0,02</td>
              <td align="left">28,19</td>
              <td align="left">Argentina</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">12</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Mexicana de Cardiologia</td>
              <td align="left">0,104</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">4</td>
              <td align="left">22</td>
              <td align="left">94</td>
              <td align="left">638</td>
              <td align="left">10</td>
              <td align="left">86</td>
              <td align="left">0,09</td>
              <td align="left">29</td>
              <td align="left">M&#233;xico</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">13</td>
              <td align="left">Revista Mexicana de Enfermeria Cardiologica</td>
              <td align="left">0,101</td>
              <td align="left">Q4</td>
              <td align="left">2</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">29</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">24</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">0</td>
              <td align="left">M&#233;xico</td>
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          </tbody>
        </table>
      </table-wrap>
      <p>Um importante aspecto da progress&#227;o do nosso fator de impacto no JCR &#233; apresentado na <xref ref-type="table" rid="t6">Tabela 3</xref>.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> Enquanto no mesmo per&#237;odo de 2017 a 2018, a maior parte das revistas de Cardiologia e das Ci&#234;ncias Cardiovasculares e M&#233;dicas no Brasil apenas mantiveram ou at&#233; diminu&#237;ram seu fator de impacto, a ABC Cardiol aumentou seu fator de impacto de forma constante a um n&#250;mero significativo, seguido apenas por uma revista de pesquisa b&#225;sica. Assim, em nossa comunidade cient&#237;fica na Am&#233;rica Latina, a ABC Cardiol se estabeleceu como a principal revista de refer&#234;ncia para Cardiologia e Ci&#234;ncia Cardiovascular.</p>
      <table-wrap id="t6">
        <label>Tabela 3</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Fator de impacto JCR para 2017 e 2018 para Revistas Brasileiras (Campo Cardiovascular, Medicina e Pesquisa B&#225;sica). Fonte: JCR<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
					</title>
        </caption>
        <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
          <colgroup>
            <col width="60%"/>
            <col width="20%"/>
            <col width="20%"/>
          </colgroup>
          <thead>
            <tr>
              <th align="left">Revista</th>
              <th align="center">Fator de Impacto 2017</th>
              <th align="center">Fator de Impacto 2018</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</td>
              <td align="center">1,318</td>
              <td align="center">1,679</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery</td>
              <td align="center">0,805</td>
              <td align="center">0,796</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research</td>
              <td align="center">1,492</td>
              <td align="center">1,850</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Clinics</td>
              <td align="center">1,245</td>
              <td align="center">1,127</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz</td>
              <td align="center">2,833</td>
              <td align="center">2,368</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira</td>
              <td align="center">0,736</td>
              <td align="center">0,801</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Sao Paulo Medical Journal</td>
              <td align="center">1,063</td>
              <td align="center">1,088</td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
      </table-wrap>
      <p>O aumento do fator de impacto significa que nossa comunidade de pesquisadores est&#225; reconhecendo os artigos est&#227;o sendo aceitos e publicados na revista ABC Cardiol como ci&#234;ncia relevante e impactante. Essa conquista cumpre a miss&#227;o da ABC Cardiol, que &#233; promover novos conhecimentos e publicar as &#250;ltimas pesquisas, tecnologias emergentes e avan&#231;os inovadores em Cardiologia e doen&#231;as card&#237;acas. A revista ABC Cardiol &#233; um jornal gratuito e de acesso aberto que pode ser visualizado, baixado e acessado por aplicativo m&#243;vel em qualquer lugar do mundo. Os leitores podem interagir com os membros do conselho editorial e autores atrav&#233;s de m&#237;dias sociais (Facebook, Tweeter, Instagram, etc.) e atrav&#233;s de postagens em filmes em nosso portal na web recentemente redesenhado.</p>
      <p>Este passo importante na progress&#227;o do ABC Cardiol para um n&#237;vel cient&#237;fico mais elevado s&#243; foi poss&#237;vel gra&#231;as a uma pol&#237;tica editorial cont&#237;nua que come&#231;ou h&#225; v&#225;rios anos com o Dr. Luis Felipe Moreira, ex-Editor-Chefe, a quem estamos profundamente gratos. Nossa equipe de editores associados internacionais e talentosos, nosso conselho editorial dedicado e os revisores s&#227;o, de longe, o principal motivo que levou a ABC Cardiol &#224; sua posi&#231;&#227;o atual. O forte apoio da diretoria da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia dada &#224; ABC Cardiol tem sido crucial para atingir nossos objetivos de aumentar nosso impacto e presen&#231;a na comunidade cient&#237;fica. Nossa dedicada equipe de assistentes editoriais, que n&#227;o mede esfor&#231;os para obter publica&#231;&#245;es oportunas e de alta qualidade, &#233; de suma import&#226;ncia para o funcionamento da nossa revista ABC Cardiol. Para mim, como editor-chefe, dirigir a ABC Cardiol e trabalhar em conjunto com essa grande equipe de profissionais em nosso escrit&#243;rio em S&#227;o Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro tem sido uma b&#234;n&#231;&#227;o. Muito obrigado por esta magn&#237;fica experi&#234;ncia.</p>
      <p>Nossa pol&#237;tica editorial est&#225; focada na qualidade cient&#237;fica dos manuscritos submetidos e nas inova&#231;&#245;es que os mesmos trazem para o campo. As ideias novas e revolucion&#225;rias trazidas &#224; luz pelo m&#233;todo cient&#237;fico rigoroso em manuscritos bem escritos s&#227;o bem-vindas. Nosso idioma principal &#233; o ingl&#234;s, mas aceitamos e publicamos todos os artigos de forma bil&#237;ngue, em ingl&#234;s e portugu&#234;s.</p>
      <p>Temos coment&#225;rios editoriais para todos os artigos originais publicados, que colocam a nova ci&#234;ncia em contexto com o campo de pesquisa espec&#237;fico. O ABC Cardiol &#233; tamb&#233;m o lar de todas as diretrizes cl&#237;nicas, declara&#231;&#245;es e consensos de especialistas endossados pela Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia. Todas as diretrizes agora s&#227;o publicadas em portugu&#234;s e ingl&#234;s e no corpo da Revista. Com essas melhorias recentes em nossa pol&#237;tica editorial e suporte cont&#237;nuo de nossa comunidade cient&#237;fica e programas de p&#243;s-gradua&#231;&#227;o no Brasil, esperamos que possamos quebrar outra barreira em rela&#231;&#227;o ao fator de impacto no pr&#243;ximo ano. Muito obrigado a todos.</p>
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